For Christians, Advent has just started; for Jews, they are currently in the middle of Hanukkah. Hanukkah attracted some special notice this year because, once in 80,000 years, it began on the same day as the American Thanksgiving. For weeks ahead of time, there were stories about Thanksgivukkah and how American Jews...

Some critics claim that if God existed, then the universe would not be 13.7 billion years old or be 93 billion light years across as it is currently. Hasn’t science shown that this immense universe was not created for us but that we are an inconsequential part of an uncreated universe?

The problem with this argument is that science can show us only the universe’s dimensions; it cannot reveal any meaning or lack of meaning inherent in those dimensions. In response to this argument, the...

Even when you give someone a well-constructed apologetic argument, it's always possible they will simply reply, "Being Catholic is your truth, not mine. It's true for you, but not for me." How should we respond to an assertion like this?

What is truth?

When we say a statement is true, we mean that it accurately describes the way the world is. Telling the truth means a person “tells it like it is,” or what they say “corresponds to reality.”...

In a previous post I argued that a common atheist intuition about what would count as proof for the existence of God also provides a foundation for the intuition that something cannot come into existence from nothing without a natural cause. If this intuition is true, then it would provide much more support for the first premise of the kalam cosmological argument. For those who are unfamiliar with...

"Do as you wish; for we are Christians, and we do not sacrifice to idols."

~ Six companions of Justin Martyr, martyrs all; speaking to the Prefect Rusticus after he threatened them with "torture without mercy" unless they sacrificed to the Roman "gods;" from the trial transcript by Tatian (A.D. 165).